Cardinal Roger Mahony's three-point plan for handling some 500 claims of molestation by priests continues to exploit those seeking reparations, Jeffrey Anderson writes in L.A. Weekly. He describes how judges, trial lawyers and the media have deferred to the cardinal's desire for secrecy, and says Los Angeles "has become a beehive of intrigue at the expense of the collective psyche of already damaged victims of child rape."
There's no shortage of evidence that Mel Gibson has an anti-Semitic agenda in his film, "The Passion of the Christ," Stewart Sallo writes. The Boulder Weekly publisher says Jews historically have been most vulnerable to Christians' acts of "revenge" during the Holy Week before Easter, when passion plays were staged. Adolph Hitler praised one such performance in Germany as a convincing portrayal of "the menace of Jewry," Sallo writes. He raises concern about the potential of Gibson's film "to generate hatred and divisiveness."
TV stations are winning a growing share of the annual $16 billion U.S. daily newspaper classified ad market, according to a new report from Classified Intelligence, a consultancy based in Altamonte Springs, Fla.
Insider, a youth weekly that promises to bring readers "Rochester Remixed," debuted Friday. Editorial content includes weird news, breezily written mainstream news, snapshots of young people having fun, and two articles identified as "big stories." The free tabloid targets ages 25 to 34, according to the Gannett daily paper that publishes it. That age group is "wildly underserved," says Democrat and Chronicle Editor Mike Johansson. AAN member City Newspaper is published in Rochester.
The Democratic contender's eagerness to normalize relations with Hanoi led him to suppress testimony and withhold intelligence information when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./M.I.A. Affairs, Sydney H. Schanberg writes in The Village Voice. Some veterans and relatives of missing soldiers believe that Vietnam held back American prisoners of war as a bargaining chip for war reparations. But the Kerry committee's final report, issued in 1993, said there was "no compelling evidence" proving anyone was still in captivity.
Online dating sites are increasingly attracting 18-to-24-year-old lovelorn singles—offering prime opportunities for marketers to target the younger demographic, according to a new report on online dating by Hitwise.
The ad offering a reward for information about damage to a Scene news rack included, in jest, a photo of the paper's restaurant critic. Kay West says it was disrespectful of publisher Albie Del Favero to run her mug without her permission. The Scene's Matt Pulle writes that he doesn't like the implications of the ad, which is one more episode in a dispute that began in October with West's not-so-flattering review of a pizza joint called MafiaOza's. He notes that "restaurant critics everywhere carefully guard their identities to avoid tipping off food establishments to their presence."
Creative Loafing writer Steve Fennessy follows the case of a couple with four children trying to establish in federal court that they have a "well-founded fear of persecution" if they return to Iran. It doesn't bode well for them that they're appearing before William Cassidy in Atlanta. One of the toughest immigration judges in the country, Cassidy rejects more than 10 asylum cases for each one he approves. Most decisions depend on how well refugees tell their stories.
With its reputation as a "party catalyst," tequila is associated by many with fond if fuzzy memories (or fantasies) of collegiate wild times involving single shots, spring flings, and other youthful antics. Cuervo, the world's leading tequila brand, believes that that image gives its drink far too little credit and fails to reflect the fact that millions of people now enjoy Cuervo Gold well beyond graduation day into mature adulthood - not only for Cinco de Mayo parties, but year-round.
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